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And popular songs and why only "Yesterday" became a "standard in the old fashioned sense."

What a great writer she is—this is like prose crack.

B. S. Prakash muses on what it takes to get into the American labor force. The last line's a kicker.

Cooking up plasma in the kitchen. But remember kids, don't try this at home.

In one of Stephen Mejias' <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/030906location/">blog posts</A>, he notes the precise alignment of his speakers. How precisely have you set up your speakers in your main system?

<I>As anyone who reads this website is all too aware, these days legislative matters increasingly encroach upon audiophiles' ability to experience uncompromised high fidelity. Like it or not, political decisions </I>can<I> and </I>do<I> have an impact on what we listen to and how we are able to manipulate our music after we have purchased it.

Wilson Audio Specialties' David Wilson likes to say that you should build a stereo system from the speakers down. Of course he does&mdash;he sells speakers. But that doesn't mean he's wrong. So recently, when offered an inexpensive new product for review, I decided it would be a good test of Wilson's theory. I tried driving Wilson's $45,000/pair <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/805wilson">MAXX2</A&gt; speakers with Outlaw Audio's RR2150, a $599 stereo receiver.